Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The ESRI's budget assessment was that the budget was regressive and significantly likely to adversely affect people on low incomes and social welfare recipients. I note in this paper the ESRI expects the impact of a more difficult Brexit to be borne more significantly by people on lower incomes than any other category in Ireland. Does this mean that our guests anticipate that, unless there is some type of concession in terms of both budget and in other policies, the situation for very poor people in Ireland is likely to get a lot worse.